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    Yahoo!

    Thanks for the reply. :) My temps say 99.5-100.3, it hasn't been completely constant but hasn't gone above or below those temps. Hopefully the rest of the little buggers make it out okay. I'll take pictures to post later after they all hatch.
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    Yahoo!

    First chick hatched late last night. Is it normal it was on day 19? I have Australorp/Lavender Ameracauna cross chicks that all have pipped and are starting to try to get out of their shell, whereas the other crosses I have (sex link/Australorps mostly) I think I have one out of 6 that has...
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    Found dead hen last night

    I'm thankful this shouldn't be typical! :) It is possible she had symptoms we didn't see because I leave for work when it is still dusky out, and get home after dark. The coop has a light in it, but on the quick trips to the coop to feed and water, and the chickens all running at one time to...
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    Found dead hen last night

    Hello, Last night I got home to feed and water my flock, and I found a 6 month old easter egger dead. Her vent was wide open, and she had an egg ready to come out. The other chickens had started pecking at her, so she was a little red on her back side as well. Is it typical that a young hen...
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    Ameracauna

    I would have thought the same thing (hiding eggs), but last week we had A LOT of snow by the coop, and my wimpy birds wouldn't come out of the coop at all. I was so excited, I was jumping for joy (I have laying hens already, but I bought them laying...these chicks were "my" babies), so it was...
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    Ameracauna

    Ugh, I'm so happy and frustrated at the same time. At the beginning of last week, my son ran in with a blue/green egg from the hen house. We have four lavender Ameracaunas, that are seven months old, and two easter eggers that are four months old. I assume the egg came from one of my...
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    Good easter egger choice?

    Good afternoon, I have four Lavender Ameracauna hens. I have a Black Australorp rooster that I was thinking of letting breed with them, and incubating the eggs. So, for starters, they would be considered an easter egger, correct? And given that Ameracaunas aren't great layers but Australorps...
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    Stupid Question

    I have four roosters; a silkie, we call Mama, (we thought he was a girl at first), a Delaware we call Big Boy, and two Australorps that I don't really have names for. Our silkie crows every morning, and half the day. I think I heard a garbled crow this afternoon from a different bird, and am not...
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    So frustrating!!

    Thanks, I hope this works out with the "new girls." It's sometimes so hard to justify buying feed for them though, when I have to scrimp on stuff the kids want because I'm buying feed. I know that sounds awful, and I DON'T mean I'm going to stop buying them feed, or that my kids don't get...
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    So frustrating!!

    No, I have one coop, but I can separate the birds if necessary. (When my hubby built it for me, he made it so dividers can slide in between 4x4 sections, and I have a HUGE yard and lots of fencing, so it won't be an issue if they don't get along. Plenty of room for the ladies. But, (hubby...
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    So frustrating!!

    So the other day I posted about getting no eggs, and wondered if it could be the food that I had switched to. I switched back, and yesterday (a bitterly cold and disgusting day weather wise) I got 6 eggs. We got snow overnight, and today I've only gotten 1 egg (out of 14 layers.) What a tease...
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    Opinion needed

    The only reason I opted for lights, is we're in Vermont...aka, the freeze box of the north. I thought it would help, because we live in a really wooded area, with not a lot of light. Thank you for the suggestions though, I really appreciate it! I didn't think of the fast shut off of the...
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    Opinion needed

    They go into the hen house about 6:30 p.m., and I have it set to go off at 9:30 p.m., and come back on at 6:30 a.m. It shouldn't take three hours for them to settle in, should it? (I'm not arguing with your logic, it's just that I've had it on only in the a.m. hours, and obviously that is not...
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    Opinion needed

    Thank you all for the input. I have switched the timing for the light, (I'm going to extend their day with it rather than start their day with it, to see if that makes a difference), and am going to switch back to the feed I fed them previously. If it is only due to the weather, I'm in for a...
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    Opinion needed

    Hello everyone! I have 14 laying hens (more that are almost ready to lay, but 14 that SHOULD be laying.) I was getting 8-10 eggs per day out of them, I installed a light to make sure they are getting at least 14 hours per day, etc. I am now getting 2-4 eggs per day. The only thing that has...
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